Free Speech vs Gender Dogma
First posted on Substack August 26, 2026 Part of the crowd at the rally This is the speech I gave to the ‘Restore Women’s Rights’ rally in Martin Place, Sydney, on 23 August 2026. We Australians are mostly a tolerant bunch. We are fine with other people living their lives in all kinds of ways […]
The lesbian phallus, and how it found its way into the Federal Court of Australia
First published on Substack June 30, 2026 In May, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia ruled that Sall Grover, the proprietor of a women-only app Giggle for Girls, had discriminated against a transwoman, Roxanne Tickle, for denying Tickle access to the app. Sall Grover did not know that Roxanne Tickle identified as a woman. […]
Dodgy Pronouns and Phantom Identities
First published on my Substack June 04, 2026 I have been invited to speak in Sydney about my new book on climate change at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in August. Filling out the author information form, I have been asked to nominate my gender. In fact, the form asks me to nominate my […]
Genderism and colonialism: How trans ideology is being imposed on the Global South
Clive Hamilton First posted on Substack May 20, 2026 When a thousand or so academics arrived at a large social science conference in an Australian capital city a couple of years ago, they soon discovered that the toilets in the convention centre were designated ‘All-gender’. Some of the women who felt uncomfortable sharing toilets with […]
Gender ideology vs free speech
The suspension of Dr Andrew Amos from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists is a case study in institutional cowardice. Amos, an academic psychiatrist at James Cook University, was not found to have harmed a patient or engaged in professional misconduct. His crime was to express clinical reservations—shared by a large and […]